Lucy Jackson

Plank Road Public Shoreline Cyanotype Series

Maspeth, Queens

2026

Rendering seasonal change on Newtown Creek through cyanotypes, I approach the Creek as an artistic collaborator. Based in Indigenous Feminist Theory in Critically Sovereign and Mark My Words, where being and becoming are defined as evolving, cyclical processes. Core to this definition of being and becoming is the understanding that time itself is cyclical, running counter to extractive colonial logics that approach time as a linear trajectory for development and expansion. This extractive thinking resulted in rampant industrialization along the creek shores and centuries of toxic waste, oil spills, and salty runoff, leading to its Superfund Site status as of 2009. Using light and water sensitive cyanotype paper to trace melting ice droplets, snowflakes, and the receding tide, I hope to pay homage to our ever evolving cycles and Newtown Creeks perpetual, triumphant flows. 

The Big Melt, three 8×10 cyanotypes on archival paper of melting ice fragments overlayed, made on February 17, 2026 (Lunar New Year).
Receding Tide in February Blizzard, diptych of two scanned 8×10 cyanotypes on archival paper made as the tide receded at 2:40pm in the February 22, 2026 blizzard.
February Blizzard, triptych of three scanned 8×10 cyanotypes on archival paper made during the February 22, 2026 blizzard.